Radiohead – Pablo Honey
180,00 lei
Label: XL Recordings – XLLP779
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: USA & Europe
Released: Apr 15, 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
2 in stock
Having existed since the mid-80s under the far more prosaic name On A Friday, Radiohead signed a six-album deal with EMI in 1991. Yet it was another two years before the major label were rewarded with a debut album.
Heavily influenced by the dominant American grunge scene, with flecks of stadium-rock grandiosity, Pablo Honey offers little evidence of the compositional genius and thirstless experimentalism that would make Radiohead one of the biggest bands on the planet by the end of the decade.
What’s so good about Pablo Honey, then? Well, there’s something ephemeral and precious in seeing a band who would later write songs of such awe-inspiring complexity and sophistication as Paranoid Android, Everything In Its Right Place and Pyramid Song, so nakedly naive and unguarded. It’s worth the price of admission just to hear Thom Yorke bellow “I wanna be in a band when I get to heaven” with complete abandon.
More importantly, Pablo Honey captures the embryonic dynamic between the band’s three guitarists. Jonny Greenwood’s exhilarating melange of tremolo-picked soundscapes, chunky octaves, screaming high-register runs and killswitch antics place him alongside Johnny Marr and John Squire as the most influential guitarist of the decade.
Meanwhile, notional rhythm man O’Brien’s foundational textures and beguiling chord shifts from Yorke marked the five-piece, completed by bassist Colin Greenwood and drummer Philip Selway, out from the rest of the nascent Britpop crowd.
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